The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Oh Oakleyi InomaS L. Richard, OF Attlca
Jacob P. Sager. Of Salem; John j. Cailloza
of Louisville; Napoleon Nanny, of Eborn
Louis Jourdan. of Osawatomie; William c.
Pollock, of Emporia; Niles Titus. of Coun
Gil Grove; Thomas Perry. of Leavenworth
James L. Adams, of Ellison; Joseph n
Barrett, Of Wyandotte; Michael r. Mizer
of Chautauqua; Samuel j. Earhart. of Leb
anon; John Rhodes, of Beverly; James vii
liams, of Olesburg: Isaac Miller, of Burling
ton; Henry Z. Most, of Taylor; William E
Rowe, of Baxter Springs; August P. John
son. of Monmouth; John A. Wilson, of Be-
lott; David Shively, of Racebufg; Henry NJ
Redd, of Washington, and Benjamin W
Hounold, of Winfield.
AGANG of burglars went through several
houses at junction City the otner night.
Mrs. KATE SMooT, wife of 2. S. Snoot
an engineer on the Atchisop, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad. committed suicide at To
peka the other day by taking dose OF
Rough on Rats. The deadly poison was
purchased early in the morning from d
drug store, and soon after she procured ii
she took very large dose, sufficient. as Z
general rule, to kill instantly. She was
found in her bedroom short time after
taking the poison and was suffering in
she died next day after taking the poison.
She was bride of only eight weeks She
was only seventeen years old. Her hus-
band is said to be one of the most faithful
employees of the road and was terribly
crushed by his affection. No cause was
known for the act.
POsT-oFFICE changes in Kansas for the
week ended April is: Established, Stuyve-
Rnr
postmaster. Name changed, Easdale, Ellis
County, to Pfeifer, Caspar Hofmeistcr.
Discontinued, Carntyne, in Kingman
County. Postmasters appointed, Agnes
City, Lyon County, W. H. Williams; Cana
da, Marion County, Aaron Schweitzer;
Chillicco. Cowley County, Daniel Tooman
Fellsburg, Edwards County, Stephen H.
Aldrich; Grenola. Elk County, G. R. Ross
Loco, Haskell County, Mrs. Melissa l.
Waite; Mertilla, Meade County, James B
High; Pauline, Shawnee County. J. w.
Spurlock; Wild Cat, Riley County, Alvin
Reynolds; Winkler Mills, Riley County,
Otto Bachheim.
ARTICLES of incorporation of the Dodge
City, Montezuma q Trinidad Railway Com
pany, were recently filed in the Office OF
Secretary of State. The capital stock Of
the company is S2,000,000.
SEVEN Topeka druggists advertised ste
whom it may concern" that they have pc
titioned the probate court for permits to
sell liquors in accordance with the new
law
THE State Fair proposition was carried by
over 300 majority in Shawnee County. The
majority in Topeka for the bonds was about
900 while the country precincts gave over
600 majority against the bonds. The bonds
having been carried work on the grounds
will be pushed forward.
WHEN the train from the West arrived
at North Topeka at midnight recently
among the passengers was an elderly man
and his wife. Most of the passengers got
off at the depot for lunch, but the pair
kept their seats. Soon the man jumped to
his feet and said he saw man in the rear
end of the car who had followed him for
years for the purpose Of taking his life,
and started out of the car. His wife at
tempted to reason with him but without
avail. She caught his arm and attempted
to hold him but had not sufficient strength
to succeed. He caught her by the hair and
pulled her out of the coach and started
down the track, pulling the woman after
him. Nothing was seen or heard of them
until the plug passed the junction the
next morning, when the woman was
found waiting for the train. She said her
husband was violently insane, rendered SO
by the constant use of morphine. She was
taking him from Denver to his home in
Indiana, when he escaped. He took her to
the junction where he threatened 10 kill her.
but changed his mind and ran off and was
still at large.
KANAPoLIs is soon 10 have a foundry aud
machine shop.
A PosT-OFFICE has been established at
Overlook. Usage County.
AT d late meeting of Kansas and Missouri
daily newspaper representatives held at
Kansas City, it was resolved to cheerful
acquiesce in the new order of things
brought about by the Interstate Com
merce law, and it was also resolved that all
business between railroads and the news
papers hereafter 'be on cash basis or it's
equivalent; that time tables, notices of a
business character, and any form of adver
Using should be charged for by publishers,
and no exchange upon the courtesy plan be
continues; that each publisher fix his own
rates for his space, and accept therefor
only such compensation as will be available
for use in the conduct of business by the
or employees; that acceptance
of contracts which would produce any other
result should be discountenanced.
THE people of Granville were recently
somewhat stirred up over the mysterious
of a young man named
James McCardel. He was working on
farm and a stranger in the neighborhood.
After putting up his team one evening at
the close of the days work, he stepped be-
hid the barn and that was the last seen of
him. He left all his clothes and personal
effects, and had not drawn his months
wages. His employer missed a razor from
The house, and 1t was the opinion that Nc
Cardel took the razor and had gone off
and committed suicide.
THE post-of1ice at Deep Hole, Clark Coun-
", has been discontinued.
THE Attorney General has gone to Wash
ngton to attend the hearing in the United
States Supreme Court of the cases of the
Pullman Palace Car Company against the
several county treaSurers of Kansas. This
vas suit commenced in Judge Brewers
court to restrain the defendants from co., |
Getting taxes from the Pullman Company
IN their rolling stock. The company has |
been defeated in the lower courts and ap-
,ealed to the United States Supreme Court. |
THE value of the public school buildings |
If Emporia is S135, 967, and it costs s35, OO0 !
Tear to support the schools.
THE disastrous prairie fire which recently |
swept over Decatur County is said to have |
,ntailed loss of S50,ol9, and was the most |
destructive that ever visited the county.
GLoRIoUs rains of late.
THE State Board of Pardons recently had |
Inder consideration the application for n
'ardon for Thurston, the man who attempt |
ID to kill Colonel d. R. Anthony few
ears ago. Colonel Anthony escaped, but
Ion. Lucien Baker, who happened to be Oil
he street some distance away, was badly
wounded Thursfon is serving ont a SEN